For my birthday this year I wanted to do something FUN and with my family. Originally I had planned on going to the snow to go tubing, but we are experiencing a drought here in California and so I decided to go to Six Flags and ride roller coasters. I must say, it was quite and experience. Its been years since I have ridden on roller coasters. My son-in-law took me on the fastest most intense roller coaster the park had to break me in~ Super Man. Good thing it was a quick ride.
The weather was beautiful. Since we went on a weekday, the park was not overly crowded. A most magical moment for me was petting some stingrays. A stingray seems like an unlikely creature to ever feel a bit of magic with, but at this bath there was about seven to ten rays swimming around in a shallow lukewarm pool that was open to the public to pet them. They felt a little soft and slimy. But what became magical was the way they all began to gather around me. I asked the overseer if they liked the attention and he said that stingrays have demonstrated an attraction for human attention. They would swim over to me and flip there flippers up the side of the pool towards me as if they were trying to illicit more of my attention. It was really cute. They reminded me of dolphins in their personalities.
My daughter and I bought each other a necklace. She picked out the turtle and I picked the blue dolphin.
Riding roller coasters, petting stingrays, spending time with my family, it was all a wonderful way to begin a new year!
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